Some of the most vulnerable people in Northern Ireland are to benefit from a £40 million cash injection from the Big Lottery Fund. Two national groups will use the lottery cash to help young and old people in Northern Ireland. One group will use their lottery grant to support vulnerable young people and the other will help isolated older members of the community.

On Friday the Canadian Lotto Max jackpot went unclaimed for a third week in-a-row but unlike the EuroMillions Lottery or US Powerball Lottery, the Canadian Lotto Max draw jackpot doesn’t simply climb and climb until it finds a winner. This means that there’s a $105 million Lotto Max jackpot to play for in this weeks draw.

The past six months has seen an enormous EuroMillions haul for UK players with over Ã‚Â£300 million being claimed by UK EuroMillions ticket holders since the beginning of the year. The winners of the latest British lottery haul matched all five main lottery numbers and the two lucky stars on Friday to win Ã‚Â£12,408,000.

A lung cancer victim won the Mega Millions jackpot last Tuesday night. A jackpot which had risen to a mighty $64 million by the time that Mary Shammas, a grandmother form Brooklyn, New York matched all five main lottery numbers and the Mega Ball to scoop the huge lottery jackpot.

On the 27th of March this year the Saturday night UK National Lottery had a £4,572,531 jackpot to play for, which was won by three lucky ticket holders. Although two of the jackpot winners have come forward and are already enjoying their new-found wealth the third jackpot winner is yet to come forward.